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The phone, which is likely to be christened Halo, (the official name as we learn now, is “Beam”) will run Android 2.1 and would be a worthy competitor to the likes of the Nexus One and the Motorola Droid. The Samsung i8520 Halo packs a 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, 8 megapixel autofocus camera with flash (VGA on the front), 720p/30fps video encoding/decoding, DivX and Xvid playback support, Bluetooth 2.1, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, A-GPS, 16GB of internal storage and microSD expansion, stereo speakers, DLNA support, and a DLP pico projector integrated. It is expected to be shipped by the third quarter of 2010.

Even though the i8520 clearly seems to run the same UI as the Bada-powered Wave, we’ve been assured by multiple people in Samsung — including a VP in the Mobile division — that it is, in fact, running Android 2.1. That ties in nicely with the fact that Bada’s graphical representation comes through as a new cut of TouchWiz, so it makes sense these guys would want to port the same look and feel to other platforms.

[Source: Engadget, Via Entertainmentvybz]